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The Art of the Misdeal 0
Over at Balloon Juice, in the midst of a longer post in which he touches on a number fo topics, John Cole puts his finger on why Donald Trump’s war of choice on Iran is not going according to plan (assuming, that is, there ever ever was a plan).
It’s as neat a summing up as I think you’ll find:
Republican Family Values 0
Honest to Betsy, you couldn’t make this stuff up.
The Privatization Scam 0
Farron follows the money.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” didn’t know the gun was loaded.
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid,
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you, brother,
You won’t find one without the other.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Nell Auc0in Naquin hears a rhyme goosestepping through the decades from Germany to here.
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*Mark Twain.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Dressing up superficial slop in Sunday go-to-meeting clothes? Yes, argues John Nosta who warns us that (empasis added)
A Tune for the Times 0
Warning: Short commercial at about the One-minute mark.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” practices self-politeness.
Whatever happened to “don’t point a gun at something unless you intend to shoot it”?
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Methinks my local rag makes a good point when they conclude that
Follow the link for the evidence.
“He Can’t Handle the Truth” 0
Farron comments on Trump’s freakout when a woman had the unmitigated insufferable gall to call out his lies. (Warning: Mild language.)
Afterthought:
Frankly (I do everything Frankly), I don’t think Trump would know a truth if it bit him on the–er–armpit.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A con artist’s best friend? From El Reg:
If approved, the sum of these claims would have amounted to £233 million ($310.3 million) across the year, or roughly £638,000 ($850,000) per day.